The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-10-08
News of the Week.

The majority in Tennessee against prohibi-
ton last week was 10000.
Owing to a prolonged session of the New
Hampshire legislature, deficiency of $780,
900 has to be provided for.
The boiler in George P. Plants -four mill,
in St. Louis, exploded on Monday morning,
killing four persons and seriously wounding
two.
The public debt statement issued on Satur-
day afternoon shows reduction during Sep
TENDER of $14, PAT 1863. Total cash in Treas
ury, S47S, S96,512
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett will publish a
newspaper in Paris, to be known as the Euro
mean Herald 1t well be modelled after the
Nelc York Herald.
The business of the port of Savannah during
September was unprecedented. The receipts
of cotton were 167 900 bales. Thirty steam
ships were loading on Saturday.
Several prominent politicians called on Gov
ernor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, on Wednesday
and urged him to call an extra session of the
legislature. The governor did not commit
himself
Local elections were held in Covington
and Newport, Kentucky, on Saturday. The
| working men elected most of their ticket in
| Newport, and in Covington they elected the
City Treasurer.
Three policemen were assaulted in Phila-
| delphia within a week. One was shot and
killed, another wounded and the third was
shot at, and only escaped because the aim
was less deadly than the intent.
Commissioner Sparks has recommended to
Secretary Lamar the restoration to the public
domain Of about 100000 acres of land in
Minnesota. within the second indemnity lin
its of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Four more cases of cholera developed on
Monday on Hoffman's Island, New York,
among the passengers of the steamship Alesia.
The patients were removed to Swinburne
Island. There are now fourteen cases under
treatment,
/ The Volunteer and Thistle had their race
\ on Friday of last week, and the Volunteer
won easily. There was strong wind and
rough sea. The Yankee yacht thus proved
her superiority over the Scotsman in light
and heavy winds, and the cup remains on this
side of the Atlantic.
While Patrick Duane, aged IA years, and
Dennis Norton, aged Is, were berrying in the
woods near Elizabeth, New Jersey, Sunday
i afternoon, they were shot by two hunters and
badly wounded. Duane is not expected to
recover Norton says the shooting was in
territorial. The sportsmen fled.
! A tornado passed through Clarion town
ship, Mecklinburgh county, North Carolina,
Wednesday afternoon Of last week. The
storm cloud looked like "a big balloon" 1t
moved about 100 feet above the surface, but
would occasionally dip down, tear up trees,
carry off house tops, and level fences.
As result of the prohibition agitation and
the close vote at the recent election, the
saloon keepers of Chattanooga, Tennessee,
have taken voluntary pledge to refrain from
doing business on Sunday, and have invited
the authorities to aid them in carrying out the
provisions of the law. Not saloon was open
in the city last Sunday.
A call, signed by William E. Dodge and
other leaders OF the various Protestant de-
nominations, has been issued for "a general
conference of all Evangelical Christians in
the United States" to be held under the au-
spices of the Evangelical Alliance of the Uni
ted States, in Washington, beginning on the
18th of December next.
Two of the most daring stage robberies
ever perpetrated in Texas occurred one night
last week in Runnels county. The stage
bound from San Angelo to Ballinger was
halted by single highwayman, who stood the
| eight passengers in row, securing nearly 81,
600. When the stage from Ballinger came
along, shortly after the first robbery, he went
through its passengers in the same way.
J. NJ. Lockett, night policeman in Bren-
ham, Texas, was waylaid by three colored men
on Monday night, who shot him in the thigh
and cut his throat with razor. They left him
for dead, but he revived sufficiently to tell
who his assailants were, and they have been
arrested. Lockett cannot live many hours,
and it is feared that the announcement of his
death will be the signal for rush upon the
Jail.